CHAPTER XIX 



SEASON 1895-96 



Stud Hounds at Belvoir Kennel Gillard relating the Merits of each 

 Hound The Families of Gambler, Shamrock, and Pirate com- 

 pared Hard Ground The Fox-hunter's Wedding Opening Day 

 The Buckminster to Edmonthorpe Gallop Record Time The 

 Pack and Huntsman's Horse Another Buckminster to Woodwell 

 Head Gallop Continued good Sport in Leicestershire and Lincoln- 

 shire during January Retirement of the Duke of Rutland The 

 Meeting of the Hunt in Grantham The Hunt Committee Frank 

 Gillard's last Leicestershire Day a brilliant one A Kill in Ranks- 

 boro Gorse The Horse Farewell The number of Foxes killed 



in twenty-six Seasons The new 

 Master, Sir Gilbert Greenall A 

 Tribute to Gillard's Care of the 

 Pack The Testimonial to the 

 retiring Huntsman Sir William 

 E. Welby Gregory's Speech 

 I Frank Gillard's Farewell. 



THE concluding 

 chapter, like a 

 beautiful sunset, 

 necessarily has a tinge 

 of sadness, because it 

 brings us to the first 

 break in the mastership 



cX*' 

 PORTRAIT or A LADY. 



